Angel Red Label

[oddian]

No, I don't think so. I haven't used that yeast, but some people will deliberately stress their yeast for the flavours it gives.
"Just run it" is the answer 99% of the time with these things :handgestures-thumbupleft: .
You might find some amazing flavour, you might find a larger than normal heads cut, you might not like it, who knows???
Your biggest fear should be that if you love the results, you don't know how to reproduce the same fermentation! :smile:
Someone who has experience with the yeast might give a better answer, but I'm sure they'll still recommend you run the wash.

Thanks for that! yeah I've noted that feedback across the forums and took it to hearts and ran it. It smelled strong, but pretty nice, smokey and actually pretty good. I'm not a big fan of whiskey prior to aging so I've managed to get about 2l @65% from 20L of wash, which I think is not too bad. I might have gone a little log into the tails but that's where all the smoke was coming thorugh.

I'll be trying a smaller (yeah I know it was pretty small to start with anyway) batch to reproduce it tomorrow and I'll see how it goes.

Thanks for the advice!

[oddian]

As an update, I did run it and it went through just fine. i didn't notice any off flavours or weirdness, it's smokey and I think it'll make a delicious whiskey. I've put it down on charred american white oak.

I tried again at 28C on a smaller batch and it took 2-3 days so I think the temp and the grain / sugar match with the red works very quickly at a high temp. I'm planning on doing another run of the same recipe next week.